FREE-SURFACE FLOW OVER A POLYGONAL AND SMOOTH TOPOGRAPHY

The study of two-dimensional, irrotational, inviscid, incompressible steady state motion generated by a polygonal and a smooth obstruction, is made in terms of the linearized theory. The bottom is represented in integral form using Fourier's double integral theorem. Then following Lamb [1], a linear free-surface profile is obtained for the supercritical and subcritical cases. The results are plotted and discussed for the two cases of the flow for different shapes of the bottom and different values of Froude number, F.